After broadcasting the ancient times live, I handed the system over to the state.

mummy?

Another new word...

However, it's not hard to understand. Modern people can do cloze tests, so understanding the context was not difficult for the ancients at all.

Don't they know what sausages, cured meats, salted fish, etc. are?

It's about eating mummies...

Eek~

How come there are all kinds of people like this?

Emperor Yongle, Zhu Di, frowned deeply, feeling he couldn't accept it, then relaxed his brow.

Just as the sky said, different places have different customs and habits.

How could he possibly control how people die or are buried?

"Air burial, also known as open-air burial, includes tree burial, cliff burial, cave burial, and hanging coffin burial, all of which are air burial." Zhu Qinggu showed several pictures, especially those of hanging coffin burial, where the densely packed coffins on the cliff face were quite chilling.

Especially the hanging coffins on some cliffs, I don't know how they were done?

In some places, even modern people have difficulty getting up there, let alone carrying a coffin.

Some people may be confused when it comes to wind burial, but many understand it when it is broken down into tree burial, hanging coffin burial, etc.

"Tree burial? The Heavenly Curtain mentioned before that the Yuan Dynasty people used a large tree split open to make a coffin. Does that count as tree burial?" Liu Bei recalled the content he had reviewed before and applied it to other situations.

"It shouldn't be considered a burial. The coffin was made from a large tree, but it was still buried in the ground," Zhuge Liang said.

They looked up at the sky, quite curious about such things.

Everyone has curiosity.

Zhu Qinggu posted a picture.

Several wooden boxes were hanging haphazardly from a large tree.

It's perfectly normal; some beekeepers do the same. You wouldn't normally think about funerals.

Such a scene, once associated with death, would send chills down the spines of the ancients.

But these things are sacred to some people who have such customs.

Some people in marginalized areas have not yet integrated into the mainstream culture of China. They will only become one of the 56 ethnic groups when the era when writing was easily censored (404) arrives and the people become the masters of their own country.

Looking at the images on the sky, they felt only a sense of sacredness.

The Manchus of the Qing Dynasty were more familiar with these practices, and the Oroqen people buried their dead in this way.

"This type of wind burial was once popular in Northeast and Southwest China. It usually involved exposing the body of the deceased in trees, open fields, under rocks, between cliffs, or inside tree holes."

"This is far too barbaric..." Zhao Zhen found it hard to accept, but then he remembered that the sky said that customs varied from place to place.

In the past, he would have referred to a land beyond civilization, which was naturally uncivilized.

Having seen many celestial phenomena, he also knows about Earth, how vast the land and ocean are, and that China is only a part of it, with many other people outside, so it's normal for their customs to be different.

There are still people who criticize this as uncivilized and barbaric behavior, but fewer and fewer people are criticizing it, even among Confucian scholars.

Those people don't study the classics, history, philosophy, and literature, and they criticize others without being heard. Are you going to go and educate them?

There were still some pedantic scholars. Even the old farmers in the fields knew that this was just a spectacle, but these pedantic scholars insisted on it. Someone nearby said, "Why don't you go and promote education?" Then all the pedantic scholars would shut up and start spouting their classical allusions.

“Some places believe that wind burial can help people reincarnate quickly, while others believe it is due to special deity worship or totem worship.”

"When it comes to wind burial, many of us think of the wind burial of the Oroqen people and the hanging coffin burial in Xiantao, Guangxi."

"The Oroqen people have become largely secularized. A documentary interviewed Oroqen people and talked about their wind burial ceremony, which was mysterious and solemn."

"After a person dies, their body is cleansed with ice water or river water, and then a coffin is made from birch bark. Sometimes a log is split in half to make a coffin. After the body is placed in the coffin, a wind burial is performed at a location one meter apart between two pine trees..."

Zhu Qinggu played a video.

Similar to a mockumentary.

Whether it's cutting down trees two meters above the ground, placing the coffin on a crossbeam, or the exact location of the coffin, everything is carefully considered.

There are also some rituals during the funeral procession. The three treasures of the deceased—hunting horse, hunting dog, and hunting knife—must be placed next to the body, and a shaman must be invited.

These rituals seem to have a very distinctive ethnic and regional feel.

In some places where shamanistic culture is still prevalent, people who see shamans on the celestial canopy begin to appear solemn and devout.

[It's a pity that the Oroqen people no longer have shamans.]

[Actually, this is a matter of inheritance. Just like many of our intangible cultural heritages, they are gradually abandoned by worldly affairs.]

[Things are much better now; more and more people are spontaneously promoting our country's intangible cultural heritage and traditional culture.]

[Douyin (TikTok) takes us to see the world, and sometimes it really does; we can see the world without leaving home.]

[You could check out the book "On the Right Bank of the Ergun River," which describes the practice of wind burial, a truly awe-inspiring ritual.]

[The traditional cultures of every ethnic group are very charming, and generally speaking, there is a growing trend of integration. Therefore, governments are taking action to protect these unique cultures and customs.]

[Sigh, but some things that should be discarded still need to be discarded.]

[Those ethnic minorities with small populations are the fastest to lose their culture and language; the Oroqen people are just one example.]

[There's no other way; they need to make a living too. Think about it: many ethnic minority areas don't have very good living conditions. They also yearn for big cities. The food, clothing, housing, transportation, medical care, and education in big cities are all different. Gradually, they will also move to big cities, and fewer and fewer people will be able to stay and stay where they are.]

[Now there's also Douyin (TikTok), where some people can do live streams. Previously, many intangible cultural heritage inheritors struggled to make a living, but now they can promote their heritage through live streaming and continue to pass it on.]

Many scholars under the sky were speechless.

They considered this barbaric and uncivilized behavior, but later nations sought to protect it.

This is a kind of magnanimity and tolerance.

It is a form of upholding national unity.

After all, all nations in later generations are one family.

The saying "the ocean embraces all rivers, and its greatness lies in its inclusiveness" only reflects the magnanimity of later generations.

Previously, no one criticized these pedantic scholars, and now they feel even more like clowns.

Zhu Qinggu then briefly explained hanging coffin burial and sky burial.

Hanging coffin burial was more acceptable to them than the Oroqen people's wind burial. When it came to sky burial, the idea of ​​being left to be pecked at by eagles made many people frown, but there was still no criticism.